60 Garden Vocabulary Words: Advanced English lesson · Speak English With Vanessa
学习描述花园和植物的英语词汇，提升日常英语表达能力。适合练习自然、生活和成长相关话题。
Vanessa: Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
Vanessa：你好，我是 Vanessa，来自 SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com 网站。
Are you ready to talk about the garden?
你准备好谈论花园的事情了吗？
Let's do it.
我们开始吧。
To be a fluent, confident English speaker, you need to be able to have the words to talk about everyday life.
要想成为一位英语表达流利、自信的人，你就必须掌握足够的词汇，以便能够用英语谈论日常生活中的各种话题。
We've already talked about some kitchen vocabulary, household vocabulary, bathroom vocabulary, but let's go outside today.
我们已经讨论过一些与厨房、家庭以及浴室相关的词汇，不过今天让我们把话题转移到户外吧。
Today, I'd like to take you on a little tour of my vegetable garden, there's also a couple of flowers,
今天，我想带大家参观一下我的菜园。菜园里还种了一些花。
and help you to enrich your vocabulary to talk about nature, the outdoors, and especially the garden.
这些内容能帮助你丰富词汇量，从而更好地谈论自然、户外活动，尤其是花园相关的话题。
Are you ready?
你准备好了吗？
Well, let me get my hat on.
好吧，让我先戴上我的帽子。
Let's get started.
我们开始吧。
I used to think that I didn't have a green thumb.
我以前总觉得自己没有“园艺天赋”（也就是说，不擅长种植植物）。
This means that you're good at growing plants.
这意味着你很擅长种植植物。
Because all of my house plants were so sad and died.
因为我所有的室内植物都显得非常萎靡不振，最终都死了。
But when I moved here and I started planting things outside, I realized, surprise, plants like sun, fresh air,
但当我搬到这里并开始在户外种植植物时，我突然意识到：这些植物其实非常依赖阳光和新鲜空气啊！
and rain.
无论晴雨，都会发生。
Who would have guessed?
谁能想到呢？
Let's start by talking about a couple different types of gardens.
我们先来谈谈几种不同类型的花园吧。
The first word that you might hear related to types of gardens is landscape.
当你听到与花园类型相关的内容时，第一个可能会出现的词就是“landscape”（景观）。
Now we often use this word when we're talking about changing the land in some way.
现在，当我们谈论以某种方式改变土地时，经常会用到这个词。
That could be adding a garden.
或许可以在那里建一个花园。
That might be adding a rock wall, maybe adding some drainage.
可能需要建造一堵石墙，或者设置一些排水系统。
Oftentimes, a person who has this as their professional job, who helps you to shape the land in some way,
通常情况下，从事这项职业的人会以某种方式帮助你改造土地（即进行土地开发或改造工作）。
they're called a landscaper, a landscaper.
他们被称为“景观设计师”（landscape designer）。
They might help you to know where you should plant trees or how you can shape the land so that there isn't flooding,
它们可以帮助你了解应该在哪里种植树木，或者如何改造地形以避免洪水发生。
these types of things.
这类事情……
Very useful job.
这项工作非常有用。
The next type of garden is a common one, a flower garden.
下一类常见的花园是花坛。
So if someone asks you, "Oh, do you like gardening?"
那么，如果有人问你：“哦，你喜欢园艺吗？
and you say, "Yeah," they might ask you, "What type of garden do you have?"
然后你会回答：“是的。”他们可能会接着问你：“你种的是什么类型的花园？
And you could say, "Well, I've got a flower garden."
你可以说：“嗯，我有一个花园，里面种着各种花。
It's great for attracting pollinators.
这对吸引传粉者非常有帮助。
These are like bees and other types of insects that help to spread pollen to different flowers and help them to grow,
这些昆虫就像蜜蜂和其他种类的昆虫一样，能够帮助花粉传播到不同的花朵上，从而促进花朵的生长。
help our world to become a wonderful place.
帮助我们的世界成为一个美好的地方。
Flower gardens are great.
花坛真是太棒了。
Add some color to your life.
为你的生活增添一些色彩吧。
Another type of garden is a vegetable garden or an herb garden.
另一种类型的花园是菜园或香草园。
Now notice that in American English, we don't say herb, the H.
现在请注意，在美式英语中，我们不会使用“herb”这个词（即拼写中带有字母“H”的那个词）。
In American English, this H is completely silent.
在美式英语中，这个字母“H”是完全不发音的（即没有任何声音）。
It's just gone.
它就这么消失了。
It's on vacation somewhere.
它现在正在某个地方度假。